What’s That Song: Shiny Toy Guns

Related Tags:

In this edition of What’s That Song, Los Angeles based rock band Shiny Toy Guns took on the task of identifying several GRAMMY Record of the Year winners from the past. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious GRAMMY wins an artist can get. Starting with the first GRAMMY awards ceremony, in 1959, the Record of the Year honors the artist, producer, engineer and mixer of a track.

“The coolest thing about that song,” said Dawson, “was that a band at their age could come around the corner like that with an absolute 1000 batted smash #1 awesome song. The whole world was just distraught and freaked out by 9/11 and that song just went BAM.”

As guitarist Gregori Petree nails naming his third song in a row, he also suggest he should go on Jeopardy to exploit his talent.

“Wasn’t the story [that] some guy was singing it on the road, like hanging out, and he was a bum or something? And somebody gave him 50 bucks and bought the song…That’s what I heard. I heard that more than once.”